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A77940	A declaration of the present sufferings of above 140. persons of the people of God (who are now in prison,) called Quakers: with a briefe accompt of about 1900. more ... Together with the number of 21. persons who were imprisoned and persecuted until death. All which was delivered to Tho. Bampfield, then Speaker of the Parliament, on the sixth day of the second month, 1659 ... As also an accompt of some grounds and reasons, why for conscience sake we bear our testimony against divers customes and practices at this day in use amongst men. Also a cry of great jndgement [sic] at hand upon the oppressors of the Lords heritage, as received from him on the 18. day of the first month called March. With an offer to the Parliament of our bodies, person for person to be imprisoned, for the redemption of our brethren, who are now in bonds for the testimony of Jesus.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing B5993; Thomason E977_7; ESTC R203719	28,651	48

contempt because they could not for conscience sake swear to their answer Thomas Palmer hath been in prison 16. weekes and William Mans 11. weeks and still are prisoners WILT-SHIRE John Fry sued in the Upper Bench and the Exchequer by John Menlas Priest of Gumfield who never demanded ought of him and was cast into prison at Fisherton-Anger near Sarum by Richard Lovel and Walter Thomas they having the Warrant of Isaac Burgess Sheriffe of Wiltshire so to do where they have been kept from the 13. day of the 9. Moneth 58 to this day Richard Ast sometime of Collerne in Wiltshire imprisoned at Fisherton-Anger at the suit of GEORGE MARSHAL Priest and Thomas Harris Impropriator for the value of two or three and thirty shillings and hath been a prisoner 21. weeks and more notwithstanding they caused his corn to be taken out of his house and field before his imprisonment Also Priest MONLAS caused to be taken from the said John Fry goods to the value of twelve pounds and more before he was imprisoned John Jay who is also a prisoner there hath sent an accompt of his sufferings YORK-SHIRE James Tenant sued in the Exchequer by the Farmer of Tythes and because he could not for conscience sake swear to his answer was committed to prison where he hath been 35. weekes and so continues Robert Mainford at the suit of CHARLES KAME Priest hath been in prison for Tythes eight Moneths Matthew Major and John Ellis imprisoned at the suit of FRANCIS SWAYNE Priest have been prisoners 20. weeks and so remains Stephen Lorimore imprisoned at the suit of Richard Sherborn for some small Tythes and hath been a prisoner two years and still remaines so committed to prison by Thomas Harison Sheriff SALOP Edward Ward for about 50s Tythes had a yoke of Oxen taken away from him worth about 12l by EDWARD LAWRANCE Priest of Shrewsbury Besides for not paying Tythes to the upholding of Priests who do not work for them there have been imprisoned to the number of 200. And moreover 44● persons suffered the spoiling of their goods because for conscience sake they could not pay Tythes the value of Tythes demanded amounted to 706. l. 8s 11. d. For which they took of their goods to the value of some thousands of pounds For Meeting together in the fear of God on the first dayes GEorge Harrison violently taken out of Apelties house who is a friend in Heverall by a rude multitude of the Town and cruelly bruised in the street till he did spit blood who a short time after dyed having never in his life time recovered from the hurt he then received DORCHESTER-GOALE Lore Bag the wife of Richard Bag and her Son Thomas Bag and three of her daughters Sarah Mary and Abigal Bag all of one Town living in Brideport and of one family were by Nicholas Sampson and Robert Prince Bayliffs for coming from a meeting about a bow shoot from the place where they dwelt committed to prison pretending they committed them for being wanderers and because they would not give them 2s 6d a piece and after were called to Sessions where Thomas Bag was fined by the Recorder thirteen shillings four pence because he wore his hat in the Court and because for conscience sake knowing they had broke no Law could not give them two shillings six pence a piece for coming from the meeting and thirteen shillings and foure pence for Thomas Bags wearing of his hat were all sent back to prison again where they have been sixteen weeks and still remaines prisoners Lore Bag being above threescore yeares old and her husband Richard Bag a Mercer driving a trade so his Whole family is taken from him to their great losse and hinderance YORKESHIRE Andrew Hawkes commited to prison by Thomas Dickison called Justice for not prosecuting a warrant which came from the said Dickison against several persons therein named which was for no other cause but for meeting together peaceably the first day of the week to wait upon the Lord and the said Hawkes hath lay●n in prison eleven moneths and have not been brought to any tryal and still remains prisoner Henry Vbanck Thomas Thackray and Christopher Thackray Thomas Docker were taken forth at a meeting in Leeds and sent to prison by Iohn Dauson and Martin Isles and at the Sessions there fined twenty shillings a peece and afterwards sent to York Castle where they remain prisoners Besides for meeting together in the fear of God on the first day of the week and denying the steeple-house worship there have been imprisoned one hundred sixty five persons and moreover for going to Godly and Christian meetings on the said day 30. persons hath had twenty eight horses and other goods taken and sold and nothing returned again which horses have been valued at one hundred thirty six pounds twelve shillings Fourthly For not Swearing and Wearing their Hats BUCKINGHAM-SHIRE GEorge Salter imprisoned at Alesbury for Tithes he refusing to swear to his answer to the Priest of Hidgerlys bill of Complaint DORCHESTER GOAL Bartholomew Logg was fined 3s and 4 pence by JOHN HOSKINS for wearing his Hatt and for not payment thereof was committed to Prison where he hath been fourteen weeks and still remains a prisoner Thomas Bagg was fined by the Recorder 13s and 4 pence because he wore his Hatt in the Court and because for conscience sake knowing he had broke no Law could not give it them was sent to Prison where he hath been sixteen weeks and still remains there GLOUCETER-SHIRE Edward Buden and William Peasly who made their personal appearance before the Barons of the Exchequer at the suit of HENRY HEN Priest and because for Conscience sake they could not return their answer upon Oath a Writ was sued forth against them signed by GEORGE RAYMOND then high Sheriff by vertue whereof they were arrested and cast into Glocester Goal and have remained Prisoners a year and 5 moneths for the value of Tithes about 20s a piece notwithstanding which the Priest HENRY HEN did in the time of their imprisonment drive away 3 Cows of the said Edw. Buden and 6 Cows of the said Will Peasly and remain Prisoners still HAMP-SHIRE James Potter committed to the Common Goal at Winchester by WILLIAM WHITHER and RICHARD KINSMILL called Justices for reading a paper at the Steeple-house yard and at the following Assizes was fined 5l by Judge NICHOLAS for wearing his Hatt when he was brought into the Court for which he was sent back to Prison and hath been a Prisoner there 20 moneths and so still remains NORFOLK William King committed to Norwich Castle for refusing to swear and was fined 40s by Judge BALDOCK for refusing to do service for his Countrey but by yea and nay and there remains NORTHAMPTON-SHIRE Peter Mackerness of Findon sued for Tithes by WILLIAM DOWNER Impropriator into the Exchequer and because for Conscience sake he could not swear was committed to the County Prison and hath been there six moneths and

still remains there SUFFOLK George Sherwing for not swearing to his answer to a Bill at the suit of the Lady GANDEE for Tithes was committed to Milton Gaol by an Attachment from Baron NICHOLAS and hath been there 2 years WALES Howell Jones Prisoner in Tregarran for not putting off his Hatt YORK-SHIRE James Tenant sued in the Exchequer by a Farmer of Tithes and because he could not for Conscience sake swear to his answer was committed to Prison where he hath been 35 weeks and so continues John Hall was taken forth of a meeting in Woodstock in Leeds Parish and because he refused to swear was sent to Prison by WILLIAM FENTON and MARTIN ISLES they pretending he was a Jesuite and still remains Prisoner in York Castle Besides for not Swearing and Wearing their Hatts Imprisoned 125 Persons and 38 Persons for not Swearing in their Courts have had goods taken from them to the value of about 77l 15s Fifthly Vnder pretence of being Vagrants HAMP-SHIRE ANthony Millage who was formerly a captain of a Frigot was as a vagrant committed to prison with Hunphery Smith to the common Goal of Winchester by JOHN BUNKLEY called justice for no other cause at all but for being in his company and hath been a Prisoner Ten Moneths William Bayly was also committed by the aforesaid JOHN BUNKLEY without any accusation laid against him but for being in the company with Humphrey Smith from the parish where he was born as a vagrant and hath been a Prisoner ten moneths and so remaines Besides cruelly whipped and counted as vagrants and wanderers though men of considerable estates 42. persons Sixthly For visiting Friends in Prisons DORCHESTER-GOAL William Ellet the younger commited to prison by NICOLAS SAMPSON and ROBERT PRINCE Baylifs of Brideport onely for standing peaceably in the street when George Buly was examined and hath been a prisoner there 14 weeks and so remaines Besides for visiting of their friends in Prison imprisoned 30. persons also two persons onely for entertaining their friends according to the command to entertain strangers were imprisoned and had four Horses taken from them worth about 18 pounds Seventhly For not repairing of Steeple-houses and not paying Clerkes Wages ONe hundred fourty one persons for the repair of Steeple-houses and Clerks-wages had demanded of them 27. l. 14. s. 8. pence for which was taken from them to the value of about 139. pounds 15. shillings and 10 pence in goods Eightly Imprisoned and Persecuted till death CAMBRIDGE Boniface Norris being neer four-score years of age as he was riding to a meeting was sorely beaten and bruised and fined 10. shillings for going to the meeting and afterwards imprisoned by DUDLY POPE called a Justice and a week after he was let out of Prison died DURHAM George Humble an aged man for standing by some of his neighbours whom GEORGE LILBURN had set in the stocks for speaking to a Priest the said Humble standing by and reproving the people was for that sent to Prison to Durham by the said LILBURN where he was kept until death DEVON-SHIRE Jane Ingram for going to visit some friends who were cast into prison and lay upon straw at Doomes-dale in Lanceston in Cornwal was by JO CHAMPION Justice so called cast into prison at Exeter and there kept in prison upon straw till she dyed LANCA-SHIRE Richard Apener was imprisoned till death for Tythes by Priest SHAW of Oldingham who also spoiled his goods and made havock of many more As some friends in Lancashire were comming from a meeting they meet with a Priest upon the high way and others with him to whom one Elizabeth Leavens spake a few words whereupon the Priests party got hedg-staves and beat the friends amongst whom a woman great with child was sorely beaten on the breast and so sorely bruised that she presently fell sick and with much adoe got home and within two or three dayes after died BRISTOL Temperance Hignel being moved of the Lord to go to a Steeple-house in Bristol to speak to JACOB BRINT Priest after he had ended was knockt down in the Steeple-house to the astonishing of her sences and sorely beaten and bruised her blood drawn and her cloaths torn off from her back in the Steeple-house and then cast into prison and being afterwards carried out in a basket sick within two or three dayes after she died Also George Harrison imprisoned there till death LINCOLNSHIRE Edmond Wolsey imprisoned for Tythes until death Also Thomas Bromby imprisoned until death for about 6. s. Tythes GLOCESTER-SHIRE Richard Atwood for 15 shillings tithes was imprisoned till death by RICHARD FOWLER Priest ESSEX James Parnel for speaking in Cogges-Hall Steeple-house on a fast day was imprisoned until death by HERBERT PELHAM THOMAS COOK DIONYSIUS WAKERING and WILLIAM HARLACKENDEN and before he dyed was most cruelly and barbarously used by the Goalers Wife NORFOLK Robert Jacob of Windham being four score years of age imprisoned till death being first cast into prison for not swearing to be a Constable and released but afterward cast into Prison again for tythes and for refusing to swear to his answer he was kept Prisoner till death OXFORD Elizabeth Fletcher a young woman was by the Schollers of Oxford for speaking the Word of the Lord to them thrown against a Grave-stone and into a Grave and drawn through a Pool with ropes and pumpt which usage she said before her death she should never recover but carry to her Grave and accordingly by reason of that usage she died SUFFOLK John Cason imprisoned for Tithes till death at the suit of JOHN PADGETT the Priest of Aldham and also by Priest GLAUFIELD and before his death was barbarously and cruelly used by the Goaler SUMMER SET-SHIRE William Tucker of Naylsey imprisoned till death by THOMAS GEORGE Priest YORK-SHIRE William Peers and Will Sykes imprisoned till death for Tithes John Sumerson imprisoned till death for Tithes having first been Prisoner two years Matthew Wilkinson imprisoned till death for Tithes in Pickering Castle because he could not swear to his answer to the Priests Bill William Wilkenson of Rosedal● for not paying Tithes to JOHN MASON of Middleton an Impropriator was sued in the Court of Exchequer and for not swearing to his answer was cast into Prison in Pickering Castle where he remained a Prisoner near a year and then died in Prison WESTMORELAND Richard Hebson aforementioned cruelly used by the Goaler of Apelby died In all Imprisoned and persecuted to death 21. Ninethly Imprisoned for things of several natures BERK-SHIRE Leonard Cole of Arberfield was put in Prison at Redding and there kept above twelve weeks the last Term was brought to the Court at Westminster called the Common Pleas where he appeared personally and was from thence sent to the Fleet where he remains a Prisoner two or three dayes after he came to the Fleet one GEORGE HATTON brought him a Declaration of ALEXANDER STOAKE● Priest and about the second day of the first month called March 1658 9 the said Priest

to destroy Gods heritage The Lord nor the people of this Nation that fear God have not intrusted them therein but if it be so said I in my heart if this wickedness be intended and if they do so greatly abuse their power they shall leave their names as a reproach to after ages and their memories shall rot and their wickedness shall lie upon them for evermore but I considered that we having given our power to the Lord from him we have found to this day and do alwayes seek defence and to be carried on and by him we stand and to him we fall not to mortal men who are as clay in the hand of the potter wherefore let the wise in heart consider these things and lay them to mind for if they shall proceed to that wickedness the nations shall they never settle in peace nor shall their Rulers receive a blessing but they shall be a curse unto themselves to all under their authority and this is a Testimony to all sober people shewing unto them all where our confidence is and in what it remaines And nevertheless if the heart of the wicked be strengthened against us and their hands made strong to deal violently yet shall the righteous rejoyce and be exceeding glad for the day of redemption and everlasting peace is come unto his people that do and have waited for him and all under him shall bow and bend and he will make his peoples cup overflow and spread their table even in the fight of their enemies and they shall fear and the terror of the Lord shall lie upon them and when they have executed their violence then shall the Lord deal violently with them E. B. A Cry of great Judgement and vengeance upon the Wicked near to be executed as it was received from the Lord into his servant ON the eighteenth day of the first month as I was travelling in Warwick-Shire my Meditations being upon the Lord and upon the cause of his people in this Nation and how unjust and unrighteous their woful sufferings have been executed upon them within these few years even when I was pondering of these things in the deep consideration thereof it came upon me from the Lord and the cry went through me the Lord will be avenged the Lord will be avenged upon his enemies and he will avenge the cause of his people and this cry stuck close upon me for some hours that the Lord would surely execute his judgments upon the oppressors of his heritage who have spoiled and troden it down and sought to destroy it And I considered and took into full view in my Spirit how grievous how sad and how unjust the sufferings of Gods people have been within these few years and my heart was even broken therewith and my Spirit even melted and it came upon me from the Lord saying Write unto the Rulers and yet once more warn them of that recompence and of that indignation which is at hand upon them even a just recompence for all their deeds and as they have done even so shall it be done to them as they have sought to destroy the generation of the righteous even so shall they be destroyed from off the face of the earth and as they hav● unjustly judged and condemned the innocent so shall they be condemned and justly judged of the Lord and as they have cast the bodies of the poor Lamb● of Christ into Prison and been a snare upon them even so shall they be insnared and into captivity shall they go and as they have caused the goods and possessions of the innocent to be spoiled and made a prey even so in like manner shall the curse of the Lord spoil their substance and as they have done so shall it be done unto them and as they have mete to others so shall it be mete to them again And I saw a great misery and desolation nigh at hand even the Sword of the Lord and it should slay them and I beheld it was made ready for the slaughter and in the sense of these things a sadness fell upon my Spirit considering the desolation and the judgment that is at hand to be executed upon the cruel oppessors Wherefore all ye Rulers and all ye that have troden down the heritage of God and ye that have disregarded those many warnings that ye have had I say unto you all in the power of the Lord God in his Dominion and by his Spirit this is once more a warning to you from the Lord that these things must surely come to pass and be fulfilled in their season and no man shall be able to deliver his brother but every man shall bear his own burthen and drink his own cup prepared for him and though it hath been counted a light thing amongst you and you have dispised the reproof and gone on without fear yet in as much as the Lord hath spared you and not speedily executed judgment upon you but rather waited for your return yet the dealing of the Lord towards you in sparing of you you have not accepted and therefore shall his judgments be the greater upon you For if you do now come to the witness in your own consciences What evil hath this people done Whose Ox have they taken or what have they desired of you or what have they sought from you or wherein have they been a burthen to you Saving that they have reproved you for your iniquities and desired your Repentance Would you but now at last come to consider this and confess the truth in your consciences will not that tell you that they have suffered patiently all things that you have cruelly imposed upon them and have not they walked peaceably towards you humbly meekly justly among their Neighbours and have they not been meek innocent even as Lambs and as the sheep before the Sbearers and have they wrought offences towards any have they sought the overthrow of the Government or have they sought vengeance against their enemies or what injury have they done to any mans person or estate saving to Satan and his kingdom Have they not sought to reform and reclaim the ungodly from their wayes and have they not pittied and prayed for their enemies and have they not in all things walked in good conscience towards the Lord and towards all men Yea my friends in the day of the Lord when the witness in your consciences shall not be limitted but shall speak plainly and when the impartial Judge shall appear upon his Throne then shall you acknowledge these things Wherefore I say unto you receive the judgment of the Lord to purifie you otherwise the judgment shall destroy you and now come to be more wise that some of you may be as a brand pluckt out of the fire and be reserved from being consumed for the visitation of the Lord is near an end when his loving kindness will be shut from you and his long suffering

turned into fury and he will make you know that we are his people with whom you have thus dealt yea you shall suddenly know it the time is not long till he will crown his people in the sight of his enemies he will crown them with praise and with righteousness with honour and majesty and he will keep them in safety even when sorrow compasses you about his mercy and loving kindness shall extend towards them even when his wrath and judgements doth smite you and confound you O what shall I say unto you for the deep sence thereof remains upon my heart for when I consider how that in all ages the Lord did avenge his peoples cause when the time of their suffering was expired he brake the bonds of iniquity and set them free thus did he with his people Israel of old and many times it was his way with his people to bring them low by suffering and then to raise them up again in glory and he suffered their enemies for a season to glory over them that he might bring them down and thus he did in England in the case between the Bishops and their crew of persecutors and the poor people at that day called Puritans Did not he confound that persecuting crew and deliver his people And is not he the same to effect the same work at this very day Yea doubtless and much more will he do it in as much as the manifestation of truth is more clear then it was in their dayes and in as much as the Rulers and people of this Nation have rejected a more clear Testimony then either the Papists in Queen Maries dayes or the Bishops and Prelates in their dayes even so much the more will the Lord God execute his vengeance with more violence in a more manifest way and all shall know that it is he that doth it and he will set his people free for he hath regarded their suffering and he hath said it is enough for he hath tried them and found them faithful and all this hath been suffered to prove them and not to destroy them and like as he hath preserved them in patience and peace through it all even so will he give them hearts to walk answerably to their deliverance and as they have abounded in patience in their sufferings so shall they abound in praises everlasting in the day of their Freedom and the earth shall be glad and shall yield the increase and blessing the Heaven and the Earth shall rejoice and the heart of the Righteous shall leap for joy when the Lord hath broken the yoke of the oppressed and set his people free inwardly and outwardly and then shall they sing unto the Lord over all their enemies who shall be tormented and vexed in the Lords sore displeasure for their reward cometh and their recompence shall be even as their work and he will give unto them sorrow and anguish in stead of rejoycing But again when I considered the long suffering and patience and forbearance of the Lords innocent people under all their sufferings and when I looked at their innocency and at their Righteousness and Spirit of Holiness with which the Lord hath blessed them my heart was made glad in the consideration of this and the more was my joy the more that I beheld their innocency and the guiltlesness of their cause whereby the unjustness of their suffering did the more appear and withal when I looked and beheld their increase under all their sufferings and how that the Lord had turned all these things to their good and to the overthrow of all their enemies how that by that way wherein their enemies intended to destroy them from being a people even thereby did the Lord most wonderfully increase them to be a great people for through all have they grown in life and power in strength and in number and through it all have they been incouraged to follow the Lord with more zeal and boldness and in the consideration of this I did rejoyce with magnifying the Lord for ever that he had brought forth his praise even through the wickedness of the wicked and he had increased his people and exalted them through the cruelty of all their enemies and that through all opposition they were attained to a happy rest and through all the tempests of great trials they were arrived into the harbour of renown and great glory and when I considered this how that the Lord had given them dominion and brought their life to reign over all their enemies these things were a joy unto me and looking back into ages seeing there was nothing nor any people for generations that had grown and risen through all opposition like unto these wherefore it is a sign and a Testimony that we are the Lords and that these things are of him and from him and by him alone that he might be praised for ever Again when I do consider how that the Lord hath raised this people even out of the dust and them that were not a people are become a people and the Lord hath provoked Nations by them that were not a people within these few years and the Lord hath carried on this work amongst his people not by any thing of man nor by the arm of flesh but in pure innocency and simplicity hath it been accomplished not by the wisdom of this World nor by men in places of honour and of power in the Nations for all that has been wanting to them and what they are it is through the opposition of all this for they have had none of the great men of the Earth on their side to defend them and establish them but all hath been against them and even oppression and tyranny executed upon them rather then any approbation or justification from men in outward authority so that truly it may be said that there hath been nothing of man in this work but all of the Lord by his own power and in a contrary way to all the false sects and false churches hath the beginning and carrying on of these things been for we know that all the false sects in this Nation hath risen been established through the countenance of men in place and power and upon man and the wisdom of this World and authority of the powers of the earth hath the rise and fall of all false churches depended and as the powers of the earth hath sided with them so have they been set up and at the displeasure of authority have been cast down But as for this people they are raised of the Lord and established by him even contrary to all men and they have given their power only to God and they cannot give their power to any mortal men to stand or fall by any outward authority and to that they cannot seek but to the Lord alone who heareth their cry and will avenge their cause Wherefore let all the persecutors bow before the Lord and let all the Saints